Hawaii National Park shall be under the executive control of the Secretary of the Interior. He shall perform the duties and exercise the powers enumerated in section 3 of this title, except as inconsistent with this section. The regulations promulgated shall provide for the preservation from injury, of all timber, birds, mineral deposits, and natural curiosities or wonders within said park, and their retention in their natural condition as nearly as possible. He may in his discretion grant leases for terms not exceeding twenty years, at such annual rental as he may determine, of parcels of land in said park of not more than twenty acres in all to any one person, corporation, or company for the erection and maintenance of buildings for the accommodation of visitors; but no such lease shall include any of the objects of curiosity or interest in said park or exclude the public from free convenient approach thereto or convey, either expressly or by implication, any exclusive privilege within the park except upon the premises held thereunder and for the time granted therein; and every such lease shall require the lessee to observe and obey each and every provision in any Act of Congress and every rule, order, or regulation of the Secretary of the Interior concerning the use, care, management, or government of the park, or any object or property therein, under penalty of forfeiture of such lease. He may in his discretion grant to persons or corporations holding leases of land in the park on August 1, 1916, upon the surrender thereof, new leases hereunder, upon the terms and stipulations contained in their present leases, with such modifications, restrictions, and reservations as he may prescribe. All of the proceeds of said leases and other revenues that may be derived from any source connected with the park shall be expended under the direction of the Secretary, in the management and protection of the same and the construction of roads and paths therein. He may also, in his discretion, permit the erection and maintenance of buildings in said park for scientific purposes. No appropriation shall be made for the improvement or maintenance of said park until proper conveyances shall be made to the United States of such perpetual easements and rights-of-way over private lands within the exterior boundaries of said park as the Secretary of the Interior shall find necessary to make said park reasonably accessible in all its parts, and said Secretary shall when such easements and rights-of-way have been conveyed to the United States report the same to Congress.
(Aug. 1, 1916, ch. 264, §4, 39 Stat. 434; June 5, 1924, ch. 263, 43 Stat. 390.)
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